Dog owners beware

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If you have used Frontline to good effect... but find that your vet ...

Dog owners beware

This is waaaay off topic... but many of us here have dogs...

If you have used Frontline to good effect... but find that your vet or someone else is now recommending certifect... don't switch... it's made by the same folks that make frontline... but is supposedly... ahem... "better" it isn't, at least not for my dog...

this is his second application... his first was fine... this time he has all the listed side effects, and other reported side effects by some owners.

Slobbering... some... no bowel movement for 2 days... still has appetite. Very lethargic... (he's older and has hip displasia anyway)... but this is much more pronounced.

A little of the "spinnies" (definition:back in the day when we drank more than we should, and the room would spin when you laid down on the bed, and you put your foot off the side of the bed to the floor to stop the world from spinning... that's the spinnies)... He can't seem to turn a corner well without adjusting for the "skew."

Will go out to urinate but then will lay down and wait for me and the other dog to come in and then have to coax him up into the house where it's air conditioned...

splays out on the floor like some dogs do to get cool... but this dog never does that...

eyes somewhat dilated...

I have called the vet and per instruction, have given him some milk (to "loosen him up"). And a benadryl, A good histamine/allergy blocker... (but will increase the lethargy, I know). And I have washed the stuff off as best I can... with dawn and basic H...

frontline=good frontline plus = good

Certifect... not so much...

My other dog is not having problems with it.. but she is much younger... and even she's a bit lazier....

Good info. Thanks for posting. I never trusted Frontline, and it truly didn't seem to work very well anyway. And I never trusted all those shots that the vet gave to my Black Lab in his left shoulder, which is right where he ended up developing a fatal cancer (may he R.I.P.).

This forum could actually use a dog-related sub-forum. Virtually all of us have (or love) dogs. And let's face it - besides being great companions, dogs are also an integral part of a well-rounded home defensive plan.

I don't put ANY of those kind of flea/tick preventatives on my dog for just such reactions and worse. I'm just careful about keeping an eye on my dog, checking her and bathing her regularly. I've tried 3 different brands and all 3 resulted in BAD side effects.
Effects I've witnessed include but not limited to:

constantly trying to run her head,neck, back on anything solid in what seemed like some sort of attempt to get the chemicals off of her.

In every case, most of the symptoms went away within minutes after bathing the dog thoroughly in an attempt to remove said chemicals applied. In each case the dog welcomed the bath(as in she jumped right in the tub), and she doesn't like to get baths!

"Sure, As long as the machines are workin' and you can call 911. But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, and you scare the crap out of them; no more rules...You'll see how primitive they can get."

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."

I've got a new addition to the family. Got her last week. She's an 11 week old German Shepherd. (Gotta add a couple pictures...one playing, and the other doing her best impression of a Senator.

The amount of info out there regarding the shots, flea / tick preventatives etc is overwhelming. I'm glad you shared some real world experience. And a big plus one for the dog sub-forum!! That would be a great addition. Thanks again for the info!

We use Frontline and have for over 10 years. It works and has caused no issues for our dog.

We also have used Deramaxx for years. Due to the issues in the Novartis plant, we had to switch to Novox. Less than 90 days later she is in the early stages of renal failure. I would urge anyone whose pet is on antinflamatory arthritis meds and has been switched to Novox to get a renal baseline blood test and monitor it closely. We can't say for sure that Novox caused the issue, but I believe it did.